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Study on the important utopian function of fairy tales in leftist political concepts.
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Romanian post-communism began with a media show and has been building up on the Manicheist sense embraced by the mass-media obsessed with „opposition duty”.
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Poema Piasta Dantyszka by Juliusz Słowacki were not well received by his contemporary readers. However, the later comparatistic analysis, placing the work in the context of mainly The Divine Comedy by Dante, but also in the tradition of the literature of Polish Enlightenment and Romanticism, reveals its intertextual dimension. The work may also be read as an ironic comment to the remains of Sarmatian culture.
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Smoke can have various symbolic meanings. It may relate to sacred, magical and psychological realms. It may also play an important role in social communication. According to Eliade, smoke means transcendence and freedom because it represents the exceeding of earthly boundaries and the reaching of the sky. Marcin Kuropatwa notices that numerous cultures have beliefs related to smoke being the “road of souls”. The human soul can free itself from the body and “rise to heaven in order to return after fulfilling its purpose”, although there are cases when daemons might use such a spiritual journey to take possession of these unguarded bodies. Polish folk culture used to have many practices related to magic and smoke. One example is the burning of incense around cattle in order to protect them from diseases and evil spirits. In China incense was burnt in temples to protect souls from approaching death. American Indians have important smoking rituals which enable agreement and making peace. This has been to a certain extent taken over by “white” societies, who often use smoking as a bonding ritual. In a psychological respect smoke represents a nostalgia for the past and “relates to oblivion and mystery”. These features are often used in the theatre, the cinema and in music for creating a specific atmosphere.
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This study is concerned with the stereotype of the “devious Sorbs”. Evidence is presented that this stereotype has been handed down through history and has survived to the present day. During the Enlightenment a counter image developed as a result of arguments about this stereotype. The image – above all towards the Germans – of the “faithful Sorb”. In empirical data gained from interviews the tendency to find explanatory models for the perceived differences are clear: in doing this the stereotypes handed down through history are cited in a stereotypical fashion. Stereotypical characterisations also play a part within the ethnic group itself, when for instance distinctions are made between different confessional, and/or geographical identities (Catholic–Protestant, town–country, Radibor–Crostwitz etc.). The purpose of identifying differences however stands alongside the desire to analyse critically the content of the traditional stereotypes.
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One can get detached from oneself and that is very dangerous. [...] I cannot compare that dread to anything else what you feel when you exist and you are aware, at the same time, that this is who you are. It is completely natural for you for 20 years or 30 years, or how many years you had lived then; and suddenly it is no longer natural, that this is “me”. Why am I “me”, why am I not “you”? Because I could be you. This surfaces in the brain and then it is already a chaos: that how the hell is it then? Somehow these pieces slip apart, the soul from the body; and the mind that has been bonded together like a Rubik-cube, gets torn apart somehow, the cogwheels get stuck. [...] and what fills me with fear is that this is who I am and that there is only one of this and I cannot escape it.
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The article discusses current problems of many years of fighting in the North Caucasus between Islamic militants of the armed underground, and the troops of the Russian Federation and its constituent republics of the Caucasus. The Mujahideen, led by Dokka Umarov, strive to gain liberation from the domination of Moscow and create their own Koranic state called the “Caucasus Emirate.” In the text the author considers to what extend it is possible to separate the North Caucasus from Russia and turn the area into an independent state. For this purpose, the four elements that make up the state of potential “Emirate” were described: the structure, number of members declared and supporters loosely associated with the organisation of, finance and weapons as well as means of acquiring them. On the basis of the above elements, the author presents the Armed Islamic underground of the Caucasus militants.
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As part of the symposium entitled “School Religious Retreats and Contemporary Forms of Transmission of Faith,” held at KUL JP II on 21-22 January 2013, a panel debate was held, devoted to evangelization in the global world of the media. The panellists – Fr. Zbigniew Paweł Maciejewski, Fr. Artur Godnarski, Fr. Tadeusz Zasępa, Fr. Jarosław Woźniak, Fr. Witold Kawecki and Jacek Kurzępa – undertook two main threads that dominated over the rest of the issues mentioned and signalled by the panellists and the other participants of the panel: 1. The role of school retreats in the process of catechization and evangelization; the need of shaping the evangelizing and kerygmatic mentality of the preachers of the Word of God. 2. The medial culture and the world of the media as an explicit challenge for evangelization – represented in part by school retreats. This text is an abbreviated script of the debate in question.
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In this work we try to perceive some specific political views related to cohabitation of Gypsies, Wallachs and Serbs in northwestern Serbia. These people have been trying to find a common and acceptable level of tolerance, solidarity and cooperation during many centuries in order to survive in a place that has been a territory of diverse national, civilization and political systems for a long time.
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Olja Triaška Stefanovič (1978) was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2007 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design at the Department of Photography and New Media in Bratislava, Slovakia. In her art practise she is focused on the relationship between photography and space, historical and sociological memory space, the disappearance of space, but also changes of its functionality and space simulation. For last four years she works at the Department of Photography and New Media and this year finishing her doctoral studies of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She was presenting her work at many group and solo exhibitions in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Spain, Germany.
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„Funkcje muzeum współcześnie”, Malbork 25.10.2012 - relacja z konferencji
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’If you save a life you save the entire world,’ goes a Jewish saying. Nevertheless, I was not brave. Rather, I was young. But in life sometimes you have to do very hazardous things. You have to know how to make decisions, though; and people usually do not make decisions. (…) You even have to believe that if any problem occurs on the way, you can sort it out somehow…
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The study examines articles, caricatures and readers’ letters in popular US magazines in relation to the widespread rise in popularity of hi-fi audio equipment in the 1950s exploring the discourse that infused the new technology with gendered meanings. Thus the technology, which according to its technical function (the mere tool of music consumption) is gender-neutral, became one of the sites of spousal conflict for the shaping of and control over domestic space in American middle class households. According to the author, men losing their autonomous spaces in the ever more confined suburban homes employed the hi-fi to reclaim personal space.
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Since the end of the 19th Century product advertising has used pictorial motifs from the Sorbian world. Sorbian national costume motifs have not only been exploited in advertising by Sorbian businesses, but also by manufacturers of agricultural machinery in Bavaria, by international cigarette companies, by the washing powder company Persil and by others. These motifs even played a prominent role in the political propaganda of National Socialism. The author uses examples to examine how Sorbian motifs were effectively inserted into the images by increasingly separating the presentation of the picture from the linguistic message for the purposes of advertising. As a result they were stripped of their historical context and ethnic content. The attractive, vivid nature of Sorbian national costume was the only element felt to have strong advertising value. Sorbian motifs were of interest for National Socialist propaganda because the images from the everyday life of Sorbian villages were apparently able to convey the ideal of a national community, which corresponded to the National Socialist world-view. That this could happen at the same time as the ban on all Sorbian organisations and the suppression of Sorbian national aspirations was a result of the ambivalent nature of the images in the pictures, which had been removed from their context.
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The Memoires of Mrs. Hoffstaedter Lajosné have been recorded by Júlia Lenkei.
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The Memoires of Mrs. Hoffstaedter Lajosné have been recorded and edited by Júlia Lenkei.
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This article explores Dutch tolerance as presented by Kader Abdolah, a Dutch writer of Iranian origin. Abdolah migrated to the Netherlands in 1988 as an adult man, and after a few years he started to write in Dutch. From 1996 to 2011, he contributed weekly columns to one of the leading Dutch newspapers, de Volkskrant, where he commented on the current political, social and cultural events in the Netherlands and in the world. His position as an outsider-insider makes him an interesting voice in the debate on the changing character of Dutch tolerance. Abdolah's literary and journalistic reactions to the changing immigration policy in the Netherlands and to the events impacting these changes will be discussed here.
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